00:00Benardo said after the Community Shield that you'd been very generous with the time off
00:10that you'd given the players after the Euros, that Kyle and Phil and Roderick came back
00:15this week with Man Utd, obviously Man Utd came back early and started in that game.
00:19Does that perhaps mean that we're not going to see the best of City until later down the
00:23line, that you're prioritising rest now over form of the team in the hope that they'll
00:28be well rested for the future?
00:30Yeah, we prioritise the rest, absolutely.
00:33I would love to give even more time, that is what it is.
00:36But no, no, I demand the best from Sunday against Chelsea.
00:41So we know we have to take points as soon as possible and when the players are fitter
00:48and better in physical condition, they have to be ready.
00:53Because Eric Ten Hag, I don't know if you saw yesterday, he said that his players aren't
00:56ready to start the season tonight.
00:58So his players were back earlier than yours.
01:01Does that mean that your players are ready for Sunday?
01:04We have to.
01:05We have to.
01:06I don't know what's going to happen.
01:09Everybody knows we are not in the best conditions, but it doesn't matter, desire and trying to
01:15do well and here control absolutely everything of luck and the vibes of the team where it's
01:21strong and all together doing what you have to do.
01:24I don't think there are a lot of teams that right now are in the perfect.
01:29So what I'm pretty sure that I learned from my experience in the many years, the season
01:33is so long and the importance of the players being ready mentally especially and for that
01:40you need rest.
01:41And yeah, I could have called them before and arrived maybe in the community shield
01:46in better conditions, but I learned that it doesn't matter.
01:51So we try to do the best in the community shield.
01:54We did it for a certain moment, the other ones we suffered, could not but differently
01:57in these stages and will not be different on Sunday in Stamford Bridge, but the players
02:05that we are here have to do our best.
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